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NEW BOOKS.

THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING: or Jeru- | trifles printed in Lockhart's Biography, and salem as it was, as it is, and as it is to be. not generally received into the collections, By J. T. Barclay, M. D., Missionary to Je- together with the poetry of the Waverly rusalem. Published by Stanford & Delisser, Novels.

New York, 1858.

A memoir of the Author has been exA few weeks ago we cut from a newspa-tracted from an edition of Scott's poetry, by per, for the Living Age, a very interesting Adam, & Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1853. extract from this large octavo, which we now see for the first time.

The name of Dr. Barclay-a resident Missionary in Jerusalem for three years and a half is now favorably known, both in Europe and in this country, for the valuable discoveries he has made in the Temple Enclosure and other sacred localities, to which he was admitted by special firman, and for the aids he has furnished to many distinguished tourists, in the Holy Land, which have been in all their recent works, repeatedly acknowledged.

Every page of this work, says the publishers, shows the extent and accuracy of his labors; and his Map of Jerusalem, now before the public, is justly esteemed the only reliable one known. His close observation of facts and conscientious adherence to truth, together with his long and patient labors in the prosecution of his task, cannot fail to recommend this book to the confidence of the public.

The publishers give a portrait of the Author who returns soon to Palestine, probably, they say, to return no more. It is beautifully done.

very

The volume is profusely illustrated with Steel Engravings, Illuminations, Lithographs and Engravings on Wood,-and is destined to a place in Ten Thousand Libraries.

THE BRITISH POETS.-SIR WALTER SCOTT. In continuation of their beautiful editions of the British Poets, Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, have issued a more complete collection than has ever been printed before, of the Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. They fill nine volumes, and are reprinted from the standard edition of Cadell, Edinburgh, 1851. The smaller pieces, dispersed through several volumes in that edition, are here, with the "Imitations of the Ancient Ballad," from the Border Minstrelsy, arranged continuously; and in compliance with a demand for completeness, the Editor has inserted immediately after these, various

It is is a pleasure to look through volumes so well printed, and on such fine, substantial paper. They do credit to the press of H. O. Houghton & Company, Cambridge. Vol. 1. Lay of the Last Minstrel. 2. Marmion.

3. Lady of the Lake.
4. Rokeby: Don Roderick.
5. Lord of the Isles.

6. Imitations of the Ancient Ballads :
Ballads, translated, or imitated,
from the German; Songs.
7. Miscellaneous Poems; Poems printed
in Lockhart's Biography; Lyrical
Pieces. Mottoes, &c., from the
Waverly Novels.

8. Bridal of Triermain; Harold the
Dauntless; Field of Waterloo;
Halidon Hill; Macduff's Cross;
9. Doom of Devorgoil; The Ayrshire
Tragedy; House of Aspen; Goetz
of Berlichingen

Copying these titles carries us back to the old world; to the era preceding the first light of the Waverly Novels.

THE PITTS STREET LECTURES.-Published by John P. Jewett & Co., Boston. These Lectures were delivered in Boston by Clergymen of six different Denominations, during the winter of 1858. The Motto and Table of Contents explains the object.

"Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you."

Lecture 1. By the Rev. William R. Clark:

Why am I a Methodist ?

2. Rev. Thomas B. Thayer: Why
are you a Universalist?
3. Rev. James N. Sykes: Why I am
a Baptist.

4. Rev. Nehemiah Adams, D. D.:
Why I am a Trinitarian Con-
gregationalist.

5. Rev. George M. Randall, D. D. : Why I am a Churchman.

6.

Rev. Orville Dewey, D. D.: Why
I am a Unitarian.

7. Rev. Thomas Starr King: Spirit

ual Christianity.

IN announcing a greatly improved series of the Living Age we address ourselves not only to the subscribers to the work, but also to the public generally, among whom this number will be largely distributed. It is expedient therefore, to enter into a degree of detail as to its plan and character, which would be unnecessary to regular readers.

At the end of the First Series we announced a Second, to contain sixteen additional pages. This was an increase of matter, but not exactly in proportion to the number of pages.- for the forty-eight pages of the

First Series were of larger size. And now, having completed twenty volumes of the Second Series, and so secured the friendship of our subscribers that they have adhered to us through the financial crisis now passing away, we have made an alliance with the eminent publishing house, Stanford & Delisser of New York, by whose strength of capital and extensive business connections in all parts of the country, we are enabled and encouraged to announce the ENLARGED SERIES, of which this is the first number; to contain eighty pages a week instead of sixty-four; to be printed in a superior manner; and upon a quality of paper much better than has lately

been used.

To give some idea of the quantity of reading matter, which in these eighty double pages is now offered, we may state that each number (price only 12 1-2 cents) would contain about two-thirds of one of the large Reviews, such as the Edinburgh, Quarterly, Westminster, or North British; or, to take for comparison another well known work, it would contain a large proportion of a whole number of Blackwood's Magazine. So that in a year we shall give, for the small sum of Six Dollars, more than is contained in all the above works put together.

And besides the best articles from the aforesaid excellent periodicals, from which we draw very largely, we copy the choicest pieces from all the following works, some of which are even superior in ability: QUARTERLIES:

British Quarterly Review,
Christian Remembrancer,
Church of England Quarterly Review,
Edinburgh Philosophical Journal,
Encyclopedia Britannica,

Irish Quarterly Review,
Journal of Sacred Literature,
London Quarterly Review,

[This is not the same work as The Quarterly Review the old rival of The Edinburgh.] National Review,

Journal of Psychological Medicine.

New Quarterly Review,

[Of these, we think the British Quarterly Review, The Christian Remembrancer, and The National Review, are of a higher order than The North British Review, or The Westminster Review.]

MONTHLIES:
Blackwood's Magazine,
Fraser's Magazine,

Dublin University Magazine,
New Monthly Magazine,
Gentleman's Magazine,
United Service Magazine,
Bentley's Miscellany,
Titan,

Christian Observer,
Eclectic Review,
Sharpe's Magazine,
Tait's Magazine,
Art Journal,
Law Journal,
Nautical Magazine,
Sporting Magazine,
Philosophical Magazine,
West of Scotland Magazine,
Bent's Advertiser,

Critic.

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The Times, Daily News, Indian Mail, Court Journal, &c., &c., &c.

Beside these we have standing orders in London for every new publication likely to be useful for the more full carrying out of our plan; and we pass in review the whole American Press.

It will be seen that "our field is the World."

Before beginning the Living Age, Mr. Littell had published and edited Littell's Museum of Foreign Literature, of which forty-five volumes were issued. After this work of twenty years, he started anew with the Living Age, of the same price as the Museum, but three times as large. Of the First Series of the Living Age, thirty-six volumes were is

sued; of the Second Series, twenty volumes. | be computed. Testimonials have been re

So that the publishers feel confident in the well-established character of the Living Age. Made up of the best matter in all other periodicals, it is certainly

The Best Magazine in the World.

To all professional men, to clergymen, lawyers, physicians, as well as to merchants and mechanics, who desire to keep up with the Tide of Time, this work is indispensable. It is not possible for them to wade through the great mass of current literature; a labor which tasks to the uttermost the days and nights of the experienced editor, with all the helps by which his long knowledge of the whole field enables him to economise labor. And if it were possible for each one of these classes to do this, he would turn from it as a weariness of the flesh and of the soul. He would recoil with disgust from the heavy lightness, the serious vanity, the vapid wit, the stupid pomposity through which we have to grope after something better. We say nothing of reading twenty good reviews of the same subject, in order to select the two or three best out of them. If he had done this, even in some superficial way, for a year, he would be ready to exclaim: "Who will show us any good!" and would be qualified to judge of the value of the Living Age as a labor-saving machine.

It requires the stimulus of professional duty, and the inexorable force of necessity, to keep a man "in the traces." Added to these, we are sure that the editor draws courage from the success of his labors, and the approbation which has been freely bestowed by the wise and good.

ceived from very many men, not undistinguished in society, that their tastes had been formed and their minds enlarged, by this periodical, under its former and present title; so that gradually the editor has come to magnify his office, and to feel that his iabor was paid, not only by what money profit he could get, but by a sense that it has not been without the usefulness which gives dignity to toil.

Soon after the Second Series began, the New York Times, in an article written by the editor, Mr. Raymond, (since Lieut. Governor,) welcomed it as follows:

The veteran LITTELL!

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Age cannot wither, nor custom stale
His infinite variety."

We have him once more remodeling and renew-
ing the Living Age for a fresh campaign and
still higher claims upon popular favor. The
size, for one thing, has been changed from a
large to a medium octavo; a decided amend-
ment. The number of pages has been increased
to sixty-four; which, it is needless to say, will
always be filled with the choicest selections, so
long as Mr. LITTELL prepares copy. Prose and
verse; fact and fiction; opinion and specula-
tion; the best things in all those periodicals
whose portraits decorate the cover: the note-
worthy leaders of the foreign and domestic news
press; and indeed, a fair résumé of the litera-
weekly number. With a programme so ex-
ture and creed of the time, will crowd each
tended, and the undoubted good faith wherewith
all its engagements are made, there can be no
question about the value and popularity of the
commodity than it merits.
magazine. It cannot have more of the latter

Before publication, the work was commended to the public, in letters for which we are ever grateful, from Justice Story, Chancellor Kent, Professor Sparks, and Prescott and Bancroft, the Historians. The Hon. George Ticknor soon followed in praise of the actual work.

But the greatest value of this work is not in its convenience and usefulness to the welleducated man,--to the statesman and philosopher, whose mind is already matured, but to the family circle, to which it may be a most We add below the comprehensive and sugimportant auxiliary in education. To the gestive lines which President Adams found large class of young men who are educating time to write in the engrossing labors and themselves, it is a treasure which can hardly responsibilities of the post in which he died.

WASHINGTON, 27 DEC., 1845.

Or all the Periodical Journals devoted to literature and science which abound in Europe and in this country, this has appeared to me to be the most useful. It contains indeed the exposition only of the current literature of the English language, but this by its immense extent and comprehension includes a portraiture of the human mind in the utmost expansion of the present age. J. Q. ADAMS.

From The American Journal of Insanity. Edited by the Medical Officers of the New York State Lunatic Asylum.

THE INSANITY OF WILLIAM COWPER. IN the entire annals of mental disease there is no case so widely known, or which has excited so deep an interest as the insanity of Cowper. Nor can we wonder at this. As a Poet he is known to all who speak the English tongue. His delightful letters have made us perfectly familiar with the man. It is impossible to read his story or his writings, without emotions of admiration, of pity and love.

despair." For nearly a year he was in this condition. Change of scene was recommended. He went with some friends to Southampton, and then it was, he tells us, "as if another sun had been kindled that instant in the heavens, on purpose to dispel sorrow and vexation of spirit; I felt the weight of all my sorrow taken off; my heart became light and joyful in a moment; I could have wept with transport had I been alone." However the sufferer himself might afterwards interpret that long period of gloom, and that instantaneous restoration of light and joy-it seems impossible for us to doubt that the depression and the relief were alike due to causes and conditions of a physical nature.

We propose to give briefly, but connectedly, the history of his mental derangement. Of hereditary taint in his case we have no evidence. His infancy was delicate in no For several years after this recovery his common degree, and he very early manifested life appears to have been easy, and far from a morbid tendency to diffidence and melan- unhappy. He amused himself with literary choly. When only six years old, he lost that pursuits. He associated with men of wit, tender mother, whose praise will live forever and learning, and fame. In the elegant and in his grateful verse. After this he was sent friendly circle of his own family connections, away to school, and for two years his tender the social requirements of his affectionate spirit was subjected to the tyrannous treat-nature were fully met. To one of his cousins ment of older boys, under that system which -an accomplished and elegant woman-he was so long the disgrace of English schools. For a boy of his temperament, the regimen was peculiarly unfavorable. He was afterwards placed at Westminster School, where he seems to have been happy enough. It was at this period that he took up for a while with the strange notion that he was immortal. "Surveying my activity and strength, and observing the evenness of my pulse, I began to entertain, with no small complacency, a notion, that perhaps I might never die." Such was his own statement long afterward. But the strange notion did not last long. "I was soon after struck with a lowness of spirits, uncommon at that age, and had frequent intimations of a consumptive habit.

At the age of 18, he left Westminster, for the study of the law. Three years afterward he took chambers in the Temple. Soon after he began thus to live alone, the malady appeared which afterwards darkened so much of his life. In his own sad memoir he thus describes it. "I was struck, not long after my settlement in the Temple, with such a dejection of spirits, as none but they who have felt the same, can have the least conception of. Day and night I was upon the rack, laying down in horror, and rising up in

became deeply attached. The affection was mutual, but the father refused consent. There can be no doubt, that the disappointment was a great one to him; but there is no evidence, as some have asserted, that his grief on this account assumed a morbid form, or had any connection with his subsequent attacks of melancholy. Southey goes farther, and asserts that "melancholy madness, which in woman so often originates in love, or takes its type from it, is seldom found to proceed from that passion, or to assume its character in man."

We are told that at this time he was fond of moving about. But this seems to have been "the restlessness of a highly sensitive nature, rather than the activity of a healthy one.' "He had a physical restlessness, which, till he was more than thirty years old, made it almost essential to his comfort to be perpetually in motion."

As he did no business, he had no means of support beyond the small patrimony left him at his father's death. This he had been gradually using up. It could not last a great deal longer. That the prospect of approaching poverty began seriously to affect his spirits, is more than probable. It so happened that the clerkship of the Journals of

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